the recent fuel price hike is affecting production based industries esp if they are energy intensive... and because of this... biomass is becoming a much cheaper alternative energy source...
enerfab also supplies biomass... so our customers dont have to worry about procuring fuel wood... we have a supplier network and a processing facility... where wood is collected and dried...
wood as chopped gliricidia sticks... well this is how it works... we go to a village ask the ppl to supply gliricidia sticks of 1-2 inch diameter... and we ask them not to chop the tree because the sticks grow to that size in about 6 months... and about 6kg of (dry) wood can be harvested from a single tree annually... and gliricidia grows anywhere in sri lanka... so its quite easy to find supplies of wood...
rule of thumb - 4kg of gliricidia can replace 1 liter of furnace oil or diesel and enerfab undertakes the supply
and our policy is to good well by doing good... something like google's policy... just that we dont have a lotta money! hmmmm...
this is a gasifier which we installed last year (when i was at enerfab)... the energy cost saving is around 65%... they used FO (furnace oil - its something like diesel but its thicker and is less "refined")...
